The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1887-04-06

AN ACT to create an Independent
free school district out of the
town of Point Pleasant, Mason
county, to be known as 1.-The
independent school district of
Point Pleasant"
Passed February "a, 1871
Be it enacted by the Legislature of
West Virginia:
1. That in case majority of the
voters voting on the question. at
the election herein provided for be
in favor thereof, the following de-
scribed territory In the county OF
Mason shall after the result of such
election Is ascertained and declar
ed, be an independent school dis
trict, and be known as "The indie
pendent school district of Point
Pleasant" to-wit: All that terri.
tory lying within the corporate
limits of the tow n ofPoint Pleasant,
bounded and described as follows:
Beginning at point on the Ka
nawha river, where a stake is call
ed for corner of G.. G. Miller and
Samuel Thomas, thence with d.
vision line of said Miller and Thorn
az, north 20 degrees As minutes,
east 204 poles, % links, to stake,
thence by the same course 30 poles,
4 links, corner of c. c. Miller, Sam
uel Thomas and j. D. McCulloch,
thence north So degrees, west 297
poles, to stake, on south side of
Clarksburg road; thence crossing
lands of ii. j. Fisher, north 70 de-
grees, west go poles, II links, to
stake on south side of road, thence
north 81 degrees, 80 minutes, west
81 poles to large cedar tree on hill
side, thence north 20 degrees, Is
minutes, 121 poles, to chestnut oak
on hill side, thence north % de-
gree<, 30 minutes, east 1874 poles.
IL Links, to small black oak on
top of ridge on lands OFF. G. Easth
am, thence north 70 degrees, 80
minutes, west, passing top of rive.
bank at 1853 poles, in all 24o poles,
to Ohio and West Virginia State
line, thence with said State line
by meanderings of Ohio river, 400
poles to point opposite the center
of Kanawha river, thence crossing
the Ohio river, and up the center
of Kanawha river, passing the West
Virginia shore at LOO feet, thence
by The same course, viz: center of
Kanawha river SOB poles, toa point
opposite division line of C. G.
Miller and Samuel Thomas, thence
north 30 degrees, 45 minutes, east
325 feet, to place of beginning.
2. At the next election for coun-
ty superintendent and other school
officers, to be held in pursuance of
law, it shall be the duty of the board
of education of Lewis district, in
Mason county, to submit to the vo-
tiers residing in said Lewis district,
the question of the adoption or re.
lection of the provisions of this act.
Those voting in favor of the es-
tablishment of said independent
school district shall have written
or printed on their ballots "For
independent district" and those
voting against the establishment
thereof shall have written or prin-
ted on their ballots Against indie.
pendent district"
The election shall be conducted,
and the result ascertained and de-
clafed, by the same officers conduct
ing the election for county smper
intendent and other school officers
on that day. At the said election
there shall also be elected by the
legal voters residing within the
boundaries of said territory of said
proposed independent district, a
board of education for said indepen-
dent school district consisting Of a
president and two commissioners.
who shall be a corpntation by the
name of 1.-The board of education of
the independent school district OF
Point Pleasant, in the county Of
Mason" and as such shall possess
all the powers and be subject to all
the Liabilities of such corporations,